Addison, Joseph: Remarks on several parts of Italy: &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703 (London: Tonson, 1718)

3 j 8 BoIonia, Modena,
ton into Poplars, who ought to have
been turned into Larch-trees j for that
it is this kind of Tree which flieds a
Gum, and is commonly found on the
Banks of the Po. The Change of Cyc-
nus into a Swan, which closes up the
Disasters of Phaeton's Family, was
wrought on the same Place where the
Sisters were turned into Trees. The
Descriptions that Firgil and Qvid have
made of it cannot be sufficiently admi-
red.
of the Eridanus, with all the Poetical
Stories that have been made of it.
Extulit, et totis lucem spargentia ripis
jlurea roranti micuerunt cornua vultu.
Non illi madidwn vulgaris arundihe cri-
nem
Velat honos, rami caput umbravere vi-
rentes
Heliadum, totijque ssuunt elessra capillis.
Palla tegit latos humeros, curruque paternq.
Intextus Phaeton glaucos incendit aniiclus:
Fultaque fub gremio calatis.nobilis •
JEtherium probat urna decus. N'antque
omnia lactus